The Brooklyn Nets fall 136-86 in Boston, ruining their trip. “It needs to be fixed,” Mikal Bridges adds.

The Brooklyn Nets fall 136-86 in Boston, ruining their trip. “It needs to be fixed,” Mikal Bridges adds.

Boston Celtics 136, Brooklyn Nets 86 is the final score.

Yes. That is the entire tale of the game on Wednesday, the greatest Nets defeat in 46 long years, since 1978.

Make no excuses. Both teams had made the short trip up from Brooklyn for this Tuesday night’s game, which was their last before the All-Star break. In case there was any disappointment, the Celtics lead the race for the top spot in the East by seven games. In addition, they were without Al Horford and Jaylen Brown, two important players.

Now, Cam Johnson was back from an adductor injury, so everyone was available for Jacque Vaughn despite Ben Simmons missing the game due to routine injury maintenance.

The final outcome? A fifty-point defeat that has you wondering, “How in the world did the Portland Trail Blazers lose a game by sixty-two points this season?” Alternatively, “How is this not the worst loss in the history of the franchise?” “How did I end up watching this team on Valentine’s Day?” might possibly be asked.

This crew is too good to not be fully committed and focused from the beginning to the end. And as a result, we had to pay for it and we did it in a challenging manner,” a disgruntled Jacque Vaughn stated following the game.

Three years have passed since the Nets, backed by three of the best players of their age, waltzed into TD Garden and pile-driven the struggling Celtics into the mud in Game 4 of the NBA Playoffs’ first round…

It was a savagely entertaining reminder to the evil Celtics that they wouldn’t be tampering with, or even smelling, Brooklyn in the upcoming years. By all measures, it was one of the best offensive games any team has ever played in the postseason. World Order Nets, correct?

In less than a year, the Celtics paid it forward by eliminating Brooklyn in the first round of the playoffs once more.

It will never be forgotten how quickly Brooklyn went from being the greatest offensive we had ever seen to being first-round fodder for teams whose internal organs weren’t malfunctioning. Not by devoted Nets supporters, not by aspiring documentarians, and not by a beat journalist summarizing a pointless thrashing nearly two years later. That is a tale that will always be told and repeated.

However, dubbing this 50-point loss to Boston “rock bottom” could just encourage the devil to turn up the flames. Still, it won’t cover Brooklyn’s rock bottom.

This season, the Nets merely needed to compete and be aggressive. to embody the “Brooklyn grit” that Joe Tsai and Sean Marks, among others, had personally attested to.

The Nets’ refusal to deal Mikal Bridges and Dorian Finney-Smith for a total of six first-round picks at the 2023 NBA Trade Deadline set in action the current strategy.

Okay, all right. Go have a good year, probably missing the playoffs because the team lacks offensive talent even on their best days, but you’ll be better off in the long run. Make a stir. even though it seems cliche.

That effort is proving to be effective when you allow a competitor to unleash a fifty-bomb on you (FIFTY!) to close out the first half of the season. The starting point guard, who has played for this team longer than any other Net, publicly announced his departure from the squad. Brooklyn’s record since December 13 is presently 8-23. Against teams that are better than.500, they are 9-26.

Wednesday night’s game lasted 17 minutes, and the Nets already had 17 points. Nothing improved with time. Neemias Queta and Oshae Brissett, two Boston deep-bench players, were hanging on the rim after dunking with both hands when they weren’t windmilling the opposition.

This season, the NBA has so many intriguing tales to tell—from these very Celtics to the turmoil surrounding the Milwaukee Bucks, to the ascent of the New York Knicks, to the explosive arrival of the youthful Oklahoma City Thunder. Perhaps you’re interested in learning more about the Los Angeles Clippers and Phoenix Suns’ three-star experiments, the Denver Nuggets’ pursuit of a repeat, or how the Minnesota Timberwolves put it all together. LeBron, incidentally, is a member of the Lakers.

On the final day of the first half of the season, the national media would have to suffer a great deal of embarrassment if they focused on the 11-seed in the Eastern Conference. The media is just as eager as the players to get to the All-Star break. Well, what a disgrace the Nets caused.

That’s the kind of loss that quickly brings about changes. This is the kind of loss that makes the media wonder, “What’s going on in Brooklyn?”

Who will therefore fix it? How? Mikal Bridges is going to be crucial if it is to be fixed, am I right? He is the franchise’s face, after all.

Later, Lewis posed an alarming question to Vaughn, wondering if he thought his message was just not reaching the locker room: “No, Brian, I think it’s far from that.” It hasn’t been these men playing together. It goes down the line that [Cam Johnson] has never performed with Dennis Schröder. Day’Ron just returned tonight, so please give him a little time. You can probably count on one hand how many times you’ve seen games from this group that are similar to this one. I have complete faith in this team.

Do you also?

Boston celebrated their fantastic season opening with a carnival at TD Garden on Valentine’s Day. And the circus on wheels that was the Nets.